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- Tags: radar
H2S screen image
Tags: 617 Squadron; H2S; radar; RAF Waddington
Discussion with Peter Spoden 2 January 2011
Conversations with Peter Spoden
Tags: 100 Group; 158 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 300 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 578 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; bale out; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Fw 190; H2S; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 110; Me 262; Mosquito; pilot; radar; Schräge Musik; shot down; target indicator; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
The Battle of Berlin
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 626 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; Dulag Luft; Gee; H2S; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; lynching; Me 110; memorial; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; propaganda; radar; RAF Bicester; RAF Hixon; RAF Wickenby; Schräge Musik; searchlight; target indicator; Tiger Moth; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
The Last Flight
Tags: 3 Group; 460 Squadron; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; Fw 190; Halifax; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 110; missing in action; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Elsham Wolds; Red Cross; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Stirling; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Notes Ben Boothman's story
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing; C-47; Lancaster; pilot; prisoner of war; radar
Email from David Fell to Dave Farnham copied to Paul Handel
Interview with John Elliot
Tags: 83 OTU; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crash; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; Operational Training Unit; P-38; radar; RAF Hemswell; RAF Madley; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Peplow; RAF Staverton; RAF Wattisham; RAF Woodbridge; training; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Aubrey Coles. One
Tags: 158 Squadron; 20 OTU; 640 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; pilot; radar; RAF Abingdon; RAF Lissett; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marston Moor; training; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
Harry Brabin memoir
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; Master Bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Victory in Europe Day (8 May 1945); Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Back to School
Tags: Distinguished Service Order; Halifax; radar
Germany war plans given away
Tags: aircrew; Distinguished Service Order; observer; pilot; radar; RAF Manston; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Wing Commander Kenneth Cook DFC
Interview with Frank Dennis. Part two
Conversation with Hamish Mahaddie. Two
Mining operation to Bordeaux
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; mine laying; navigator; pilot; radar
Operation to Kiel
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Gee; navigator; pilot; radar
Operation to Caen
Bob Smith's Memoirs - Book 4
Tags: 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 3 Group; 617 Squadron; 622 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; love and romance; mess; mine laying; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Desborough; RAF Honington; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tempsford; RAF West Freugh; Special Operations Executive; sport; V-2; V-weapon; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
A Tour of Operations with RAF Bomber Command No XV/15 Squadron Mildenhall - Third book of memoirs by Bob Smith
Tags: 1 Group; 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 186 Squadron; 195 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 3 Group; 5 Group; 514 Squadron; 6 Group; 617 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 8 Group; 90 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; escaping; flight engineer; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Master Bomber; Me 109; mess; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; radar; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Lindholme; RAF Mepal; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Sealand; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Weston Zoyland; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; target photograph; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Mining Gdynia
Tags: 103 Squadron; aircrew; H2S; mine laying; radar
Mining Stettin
24/5 EWS 16/17.8.44// 11000 ? 30/30 L 0119 Mining Stettin. FL/T Josey. U103
24/3 EWS 16/17.8.44// 11000 185 30/30 M. 011530 Mining Stettin. Swinemunde 12 FL/T Josey. U103
24/1 EWS…
Tags: 103 Squadron; aircrew; H2S; mine laying; radar